Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:41): My question is to the Premier. Will the government fund the Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass on an 80:20 funding split with the federal government? If so, what representations did the Premier make to the federal Treasurer ahead of the federal budget last week?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer, Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Minister for Police) (14:41): I am grateful to the leader for his question. Of course, this is a series of questions that the leader has asked about the federal government. The first question was: 'Why didn't the state get anything in the federal budget?' The second question was: 'Why did the state get something in the federal budget?' The third question was: 'When did you find out that the state got lots in the federal budget?' It is a genius tactic, as my colleague has said.

As the Premier has said, it is not just the redevelopment work that is going on for the Flinders Medical Centre but also today what was announced by the Prime Minister in South Australia in the Boothby federal election about working with Flinders University—not just the Torrens to Darlington, or the north-south corridor, or the $1.9 billion commitment to Whyalla, or the $700 million that was in the latest skills agreement, or the extraordinary increase in funding that we are seeing in the education agreement for our public school system, or Curtis Road now it is the High Productivity Vehicle Network.

As my colleague has said, we have our state budget process underway now. We are grateful that there is one side of federal politics that is willing to commit funding to improving South Australia's roads. That also happens to be the incumbent federal government. So, like we would normally do at every federal budget, which is usually handed down about a month before each state budget, we look at how the federal budget impacts the state. We weigh that up as we are putting together the state budget.

We are very much looking forward to considering that as well as the other commitments that were made in the federal budget for South Australia, including a commitment to grade separate Curtis Road out in the northern suburbs, a road project of high priority to northern suburbs communities, in particular with the huge addition of housing into those communities. We are grateful that, once again, the Albanese federal government is carving out more and more money for South Australia for more and more projects. We are looking forward to working through that as we put the state's budget together.